“Is it a toilet or is it a hole?” Lindsie asked with some apprehension.
“I don’t know,” Julie replied. “But I’ll find out.”
And thus concluded the best conversation of the trip, so far.

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I’m on the night train to Hue (pron:HOO-ay). The sleeping berth I’m sharing with four other girls is currently occupied by about eight or nine people? Including the four girls? I was’t sure about this but then there was whiskey so now I’m fine.

I tried dried squid. It was hard to chew.